“About 30 seconds after accepting the ride, the rider sent me a message via the app. ‘I need you to act like you know me, and that you’re not my Uber driver’. When I got there, I had my window rolled down. She looked over and yelled, ‘Hi, Babe! I’ll be right there!’”
‘When you get here, can you pretend to be my boyfriend?’: Uber driver acts like woman’s boyfriend to protect her from ‘aggressive’ man
‘Your future husband is 2 years old. Will he tell me, ‘Mom, she’s the one!’? It’s hard to believe my place as his mother will be eclipsed by your place as his wife.’
“I will recognize my son’s loyalty is first to you. I will refrain from gossiping about you to family members. I will not harbor a grudge if you tell me, ‘I’m sorry, but we just can’t make that work right now.'”
‘To the woman at the pharmacist. Not the one who stared at me like I was a disgusting pile of filth. The other woman, with kindness in her eyes. You didn’t know it, but you saved me.’
“I was ready to burst into tears. I was trying to talk to him, because being on your last week of pills is like standing on the edge of a cliff. Everyone heard me, even the pharmacist could hear the panic and my voice quivering.”
‘This is my ex-wife. The mother of my 3 children. The woman who brought all 3 of my children into this world.’
“We got married young, had 3 beautiful children and had a bitter divorce. Three years later, that relationship is much different.”
‘It’s not my job to make you happy. Sorry, buckaroo. You’re going to have to figure that one out on your own. I’ll make sure I am happy.’
“’You’ve screwed up again.’ You’ll be out of this house. And when that happens, there won’t be much we can do to make you happy anymore.”
‘Dear Man on my flight, You referred to me as a ‘2-ton woman.’ I confronted you. ‘I am not 2 tons, but I did just have a baby.’ You asked the flight attendant for a different seat.’
“Would he have said that had I been a man? Or had my daughter and husband with me? I don’t know. But women deal with these attitudes and behavior more than men, that I do know. And I. Am. Over. It.”
‘My son still needs to be cuddled to sleep. He’s nearly four. People often ask how I stay so patient. The truth is, I don’t.’
“Tantrums. Not sleeping. Overtired. Driving me to the brink of insanity…”
‘Whenever friends asks me to do something, I respond with, ‘Let me ask my husband first.’
“*GASP* I ask my husband for permission? No, Tim is not my parent. That’s not the point of asking.”
‘Maybe he doesn’t hit you, but he makes you apologize for getting upset after something he did to hurt you.’
“He brought you flowers on Tuesday and made you feel like a princess. Yet caused you to cry yourself to sleep on Wednesday over a ‘suspicious’ guy liking your picture.”
‘During my Daddy’s funeral procession, led by the United States Marine Corps, my family noticed the man in this photo pulled over on the side of the road.’
“We passed many other cars that simply went about their day. My daughter did some digging and we found him.”
